The
one thing the gutting of the Voting Rights Act shared
with the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act is that
both, in my opinion,
were derelictions of duty by the Supreme
Court. Instead of finding a cure for these cases the
majority of the judges simply punted them back to the
states.

How hard would it have been to have simply determined
that all Americans have an equal shot at both voting
and marriage?
Instead we got "Aww, let the creationists figger
it out."
Or, to be more exact, "Put 'em in a jar
and shake it! Watch 'em fight!"

I have to admit that there's more at play here than I'll
probably ever understand but it sure seems like
the SCOTUS is setting an unhealthy precedent concerning
states'
rights. We are, after all, a united nation, not an aggregation
of fiefdoms. The next cases
may be about food safety, air quality, education, possibly
even health care. Who's to say, after all, that states
shouldn't be the one's who decide how much pink slime
is in the air
you breathe?

If you want more answers and fewer questions
the solution is to give the President another supermajority in the 2014 mid-terms.
Without the GOP able to run interference it's entirely
possible that Justice Clarence
Thomas, who is famously beset with many troubling ethical
questions, could be impeached and replaced.